Neubarth
At the Ballpark July 30th
What field was your father in?Nuebarth, did you really apply for 37,00 jobs in 5 years? My father held roughly 5 or 6 jobs between the age of 45 and 60. Not bagging on him, but he was fired from a few of them. Always had another job withing a month or so. He didn't make 6 figures, but a livable wage. Never had an issue getting another job. He just retired last year, so he had new jobs during up and down economies. Did you ask for 10 hours a week and a starting salary of 500,000 a year? How in the world did you not get a job? I smell a liar..........or someone with a horribly pessimistic attitude of life in general. I'm sorry.
My father was Chief of Dentistry for the South Pacific.
In all of my applications, I sent my resume and applied for anything that I was qualified for.
With AT&T, I managed their statewide company networks. I also managed their call center for company related trouble calls (I was the manager over the testers, not the call screeners.). I also just for the fun of it was a main frame computer operator on both day time operations and night time batch shift. As a Naval Officer, I was a Nuclear Weapons Officer, Ballasting Officer, Damage Control Officer as well as a Nuclear Reactor Plant Operator. I applied for every and any job. On jobs that did not require massive background, I "simplified" my resume when I sent it in. I applied for call center work, setting up computers on desktops, mainframe operations, server operations, National Cemetery staff. I applied for jobs in Afghanistan, Iraq and North Africa. Almost anything that you could conceive of I applied for, with over half of the jobs with the Federal Government and State Government. NOTHING! NOT ONE REQUEST FOR AN INTERVIEW!
Federal and state governments are the worst at age discrimination. If you are over fifty, don't even waste your time sending in a resume. They simply will not talk to you. On my officer evaluations I had straight Upper One percent evaluations that enticed the Navy to offer me two plus years of paid Post Grad School in Monterrey. I turned it down because AT&T hired me out of the Navy. It does not matter one iota how good your evaluations say you are, the young people doing the screening of resumes are trained to look at your years of military service (from to) and trash your resume if you are judged to be over fifty.
Now, you might ask, why did I apply to all of these jobs? The answer is simple. My pet peeve is the dishonesty of government when it comes to employment. They lie about everything. We have laws against age discrimination, sex discrimination, race discrimination, yet they are not enforced by the government for government jobs. Age discrimination abounds. Race discrimination abounds. I can show you government offices in the SF Bay area where everybody is Asian (not one White, Black or Hispanic even though they are present in the local population where the office is situated.). If they are not discriminating, how in hell do they only hire Asians?
Knowing that people who are over fifty are heavily unemployed, I have written to numerous directors of personnel and asked them how many people have they hired in the past year who were over fifty. Unless the position was CEO or CFO, the answer is almost always ZERO.
The outrageous unemployment numbers that the Government is trying to feed the public are not a conspiracy as Pinko likes to say. It is just the result of gross government ineptitude and a "I don't give a damn" attitude of the data compilers. If they actually surveyed the public, they would find that there are well over 30 million unemployed or vastly underemployed people in the US. Many of the underemployed are working short term part time jobs. (painting rooms for people, making repairs to houses or cars for cash, gardening....). If you are a head of household, you can not support a family on that, but millions of family men are doing that to get by. Things are really ugly out there.